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The Teochew people or Chaoshanese, Teo-Swa people or Chaoshan people (rendered Têo-Swa in romanized Teoswa [clarification needed] and Cháoshàn in Modern Standard Mandarin also known as Teo-Swa in mainland China due to a change in place names [1]) is an ethnic group native to the historical Chaoshan region in south China [2] who speak the Teochew language.
Chaozhou (Chinese: 潮州), alternatively Chiuchow, [3] Chaochow [4] or Teochew, [5] is a city in the eastern Guangdong province of China.It borders Shantou to the south, Jieyang to the southwest, Meizhou to the northwest, the province of Fujian to the east, and the South China Sea to the southeast.
Teochew, like other Chinese varieties, is a tonal language. Like other Southern Min varieties, Teochew has split the Middle Chinese four tone into two registers (four "dark tones" and four "light tones"). The tones are numbered from 1 through 8, either in the "dark—light" order (the checked tones are 7 and 8) or in the "level—rising ...
The Singapore Department of Statistics defines "Chinese" as a "race" or "ethnic group", in conjunction with "Malay, Indian and Others" under the CMIO model. [10] They consist of "persons of Chinese origin" such as the Hokkiens, Teochews, Hainanese, Cantonese, Hakka, Henghuas, Hokchias and Foochows, Shanghainese, Northern Chinese, etc." [11] Chinese Singaporeans are defined as the "Chinese ...
The earliest records of Teochew immigrants date back to the 16th century when some mutineers under the leadership of the Chinese pirate, Lim To Khieng settled in Cambodia. [18] No significant Chinese immigration from the Chaoshan region occurred until the 1860s, and the Teochews came to Cambodia in modest numbers in the later part of the 19th ...
The pork liver is one of the organs that must be included, whose "肝" pronounced the same as "官" (meaning "officer") in Teochew language. [7] This is because the only way for ordinate people to get rid of poverty and oppression is to take the imperial competitive examination, a bureaucratic electoral system in ancient China, to become the ...
The Chinese community forms the dominant ethnic group in Pontianak, making up an estimated 30% to 40% of the city's population. [15] Of this population, more than half or two-thirds are Teochew, while the remaining portion consists of Hakkas or other Chinese groups. [2] In Pontianak, two varieties of Chinese are spoken: Teochew and Hakka.
The Ngee Ann Kongsi (Chinese: 義安公司 or 义安公司; pinyin: Yì Ān Gōngsī) is a charitable foundation in Singapore and governed by the Ngee Ann Kongsi Ordinance of 1933. [1] It is one of many Overseas Chinese Kongsi , or clan associations, that were set up by immigrants from China in the late 19th century.